In lieu with the Hacking Urban Furniture Project, I will hold a workshop at the upcoming symposion XXX 7./8. of April at ZK/U. Introduction The basic idea of the project is a Marx-inspired exploration of the economic logic of corporate urban furniture with a focus on exploring it’s spatial patterns. It’s not about a rigid application of the Marxian technical apparatus, but, as a start, about embracing his critical perspective on economic patterns. The first step in Marx‘ critique of political economy was a sorrow historical analysis of how economic surplus is generated: in order to be able to critique economic inequality one has first to understand the regime of…

This course is conceived as examination of the Flussbad project in Berlin. For details of the project see: http://www.flussbad-berlin.de/en/ We will analyse the context of the project in theoretical and historical perspective, split up into research task groups, collect empirical data, and produce collective micro contributions for the project. Besides and in addition to our academic perspective on the project, we have the opportunity to get to know the team behind the project and participate in the actual planning process. The original announcement of the summerschool can be found here: https://www.tu-berlin.de/menue/summer_university/summer_schools/grass_roots_urban_design_projects_flussbad_berlin/parameter/en/

Co-directed with Miodrag Kuč (http://www.paraartformations.net), edited by Luis Berríos-Negrón (http://www.luisberriosnegron.org/). December 15th 2013, 19:00h, LEHRTER SIEBZEHN We have been working on it for a while now: together with Miodrag Kuč and Luis Berríos-Negrón I have been busy with the development of AXP’s 5th case, called The Intellectual Property Issue. Not everything but still much is in the making, two month away from the event at LEHRTER SIEBZEHN the collective is shifting into working mode. This is a mission statement for something that has yet to be detailed out.

Anti-curatorial installation for collective insight processes The Objective Dialogues Y-Table consisted of a three way, Y-shaped table with 4 analytical examination stations, a display system, examination sheets, audio recorders and a facilitator. The examination stations refer to classical scientific methods in order to question the contemporary alliances between scientific research and the arts. This is equally indicated by the title of the project: Objective Dialogues are not objective but about objects.

The k67_Urban Router is a project initiated in collaboration with ParaArtFormations (Miodrag Kuc). It is a mobile plattform for urban investigations and actions, based on an upgraded Yugo kiosk from the 70ies. The k67 has its own WLAN-Intranet which is open, i.e. publicly accessible on the site.

A collective writing experiment Eric Ellingsen was so kind to invite the AXP for a contribution for the Institut für Raumexperimente „TRANSLATION ACTS“ project in the „The World is Not Fair“ exhibition in the Tempelhofer Feld. We brought a ‚modded‘ etherpad as a prop to experiment with, so that everyone on site could hook on to the same pad with any WLAN capable device and write together.

Installation for The Anxious Prop Case 2: Have Balls [Eccentric] The destruction and replacement logic of urban planning that is obvious at Alexanderplatz and elsewhere is not unusual in urban planning. It is the result of different and deeply entangled historical developments; very often these developments are approached via a criticism of capitalistic positivism which subordinates ever more aspects of life under economically quantifiable patterns.